After seven seasons, NBC’s “Parks and Recreation” came to an end Tuesday night, giving the world a reason to ugly-cry as hard as if Li’l Sebastian had died all over again. (Don’t know who Lil Sebastian is? AKA you don’t watch “Parks and Rec?” What are you doing here!? Go binge!)

The conventional wisdom going into the 87th Academy Awards was that it would be a horse race between two quirky, experimental films: “Boyhood,” Richard Linklater’s coming-of-age drama that took 12 years to film, and “Birdman or (the Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance”), a backstage show-business satire that director Alejandro González Iñárritu constructed to resemble one continuous take.

In 2006, Stephen Colbert performed at the White House correspondent’s dinner. For almost 25 uncomfortably hilarious and immediately divisive minutes, Colbert performed as the titular character of his Comedy Central show, damning virtually all the attendees, including then-President George W. Bush, with praise faint and otherwise.

WASHINGTON — The Kennedy Center Honors offered its usual mix of celebrity surprises Sunday night during a star-studded performance that featured soaring soul music and Hollywood schmaltz, before ending with an old-fashioned rock-and-roll jam.

LONE PINE, Calif. — These days, sad to say, movie location scouts are so eager to flee California for cushy tax enticements that they don’t even deign to shoot films supposed to be set in the Golden State on the terra bella.

Katherine Heigl is back on TV, everyone, after leaving “Grey’s Anatomy” way back in the last decade because she didn’t like what was being written for her, as she said at the time, or because she wanted to spend more time with her family, as she said later. Whatever! (She was right the first time, though it’s not the sort of thing you’re supposed to say, especially about a hit show for which you win an Emmy.)